Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 26th Aug 2009 18:08 UTC
"Sun Microsystems' product plans are up in the air pending its acquisition by Oracle, but the company's chip engineers continue to present new designs in the hope they'll see the light of day. At the Hot Chips conference at Stanford University on Tuesday, Sun presented plans for a security accelerator chip that it said would reduce encryption costs for applications such as VoIP calls and online banking Web sites. The chip, known as a coprocessor, will be included on the same silicon as Rainbow Falls, the code name for the follow-on to Sun's multithreaded Ultrasparc T2 processor."
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2006-01-19
It's an ultra-niche and ultimately fruitless selling point when you consider the competitors that are already there and doing it.
So it's a fruitless selling point when there are competitors who base all of their selling on the same point? If you are already buying SPARC, I can't see how not having to spend any money on a third-party board could be considered a bad thing.
I don't see how this is any different than a UNIX vendor back in the day bundling a volume manager. It may not be the best one, but it relegates the dedicated third party product (eg Veritas) to the niche, not the other way around.
Same deal with integrated video. I bet integrated video chews up a third of nvidia's potential market by the mere virtue of being there.